I think I have corrected all olf the errors in the premake package. Please let me know if there is anything left to change.
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, James > Goppert wrote: > >Thanks. The package is just a build program, like make. I'm trying to > build > >these packages on lenny. Guess that 's why my lintian didn't give those > >errors. I guess I'll have to run a sid virtual machine or something since > >taking my network to sid isn't an option. > > First, make sure you are running lintian against the .changes file, not > against the .deb(s). That way, it can issue warnings for the source > packaging > and mismatches between the source packages and the binary packages. > > Second, most packages submitted to Debian should be built on a clean Sid > (unstable) system, since they will be entering the archives there and > because > it is policy. > > Third, pbuilder (and variants like cowbuilder) make it very easy to build, > maintain, and use a chroot environment for building packages and there are > fairly well-documented ways of running your lintian test from within that > chroot as well. > > Forth, the dependencies for the lintian package in sid can usually be > satisfied with packages from current stable. When that's true you can use > a > (dpkg -i) run or modify your sources.list (adding Sid) and preferences > files > (pinning most of Sid to 99 or less, and lintian in Sid to 991 or more) to > install Sid's lintian on a stable system. > > Fifth, thanks for the package, I hope you can clean it up and get it in > Debian. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > [email protected] ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ >
